This article is about the difficulties to concrete initiatives that get close to a logic of a social economy, into a capitalist and market society.
In our research the specific case of recovered companies (work self management) that we studied shows differences related to the processes in the beginning of the their constitution, such as the actors involved in this gestation period, the judicial and organizational framework each one had chosen, etcetera. Through this heterogeneity and considering the associatively ways concerning to work that generates this experiences, we can underline regularities related to the obstacles to face up. Among them, occur a series of conflicts, in which two different organizational logics are opposed: a professional logic, associated with a craft habitus gestated in the way of capitalist production; and a “civil” logic, related to self managed practices inside this enterprises that implicate a redefinition of their hierarchical structure, in connection to the functions and roles of the old technical labor division.